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Wiltsee, Ernest Abram.
Gold rush steamers of the Pacific, by Ernest A. Wiltsee ... San Francisco, The Grabhorn press, 1938.
x p., 1 1., 367, (1) p. col. front., plates, ports., facsims. 26.
Map on lining-papers.
“Five hundred copies printed.”
“This volume on the ships to California from 1848 to 1869 evolved from a study of the propaganda hand stamps used by the steamship companies on the letters carried by their vessels ... To complete the study it seemed advisable to bring in, at least in a minor way, the other agencies that eventually released the then far-off Pacific coast from its isola- tion.”—Foreword.
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